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flashplugin-nonfree package

New to Linux, how to get Firefox to play flash video.

Asked by Bruce

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When trying to view flash video in firefox browser, the area where the video would normally play opens up. No video or audio plays - the video area remains blank. Everything else about firefox seems to work ok, just no flash video.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 18 12:10:50 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #249942.

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Bruce (clyde-winfrey) said : 		#1
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Nick Ellery (nick.ellery) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at [WWW] https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see [WWW] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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TuniX12 (tunix12-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

go to system>administration>software sources and enable additional repositeries
now go to add/remove programs and search flash
alternatively download the flashplayer from adobe http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BUIGP and dowload it
alternatively download all Gstreamer plugins via synaptic

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euler (smartone04) said : 		#4

I have just got this to work on both of my Ubuntu computers. The easiest way I have found is just by going to a site that uses it, like www.youtube.com and trying to play a video. A bar should appear at the top of the browser window that says you are missing a plug-in. When you click on the bar you will have the option of installing 3 different types of flash player. I chose the Adobe flash plugin and it installed and worked fine after reopening the browser.

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